The Chandler auto which Deputy Sheriff Vic Fesperman and Rural Policemen C.G. Brown and Louis Johnson fell heir to on the Monroe road, seven miles from the city, on Friday night after two men had fled from this place, leaving eight gallons of good corn whiskey in eight fruit jars has been claimed.
Bogue Crook, a young man of East Seventh street, has identified the car as his and says it was stolen from his place on East Seventh street Friday night. It is in the custody of the sheriff’s office, in accordance with the North Carolina law which provides that all vehicles known to have been used in the transportation or handling of liquor shall be confiscated and sold. It had not been determined at the sheriff’s office at noon Monday whether the car would be handled over to Mr. Crook at once, or whether it would be held for further investigation.
Crook was a defendant in superior court here about a year ago in a case wherein the state charged him with being connected in a liquor transaction. He was adjudged not guilty. No warrant has been drawn in connection with the finding of the eight gallons of liquor and the Chandler car, although the officer saw two men get out of the car and chased them.
The officers, following a clue which they had picked up somewhere, went out on the Monroe road a little before midnight Friday night and drove out about seven miles, parking their car at the road side, out of view of the road, and waited for an expected automobile. In accordance with their expectations, a car came into hearing about 1 o’clock from Charlotte. It as this car which stopped presently, and from which two men got out. They went into a thicket, in which is a former gold pit. The officers followed them, but the two men took fright and broke all sprinting records getting away. The eight quarts of liquor were brought in, along with the car the two men had abandoned, which proved to be the Chandler which Crook says belongs to him. The auto license records show it as his, bearing his license tag.
The officers went back to the thicket Saturday, but found no new evidence.
From The Charlotte News, Monday, June 27, 1921 -=- Bogue S. Crook Turned Loose. . . Man Who Has Figured in Several Liquor Incidents Gets Away Again
Bogue S. Crook, whose Chandler car was found by deputy sheriffs and officers seven miles from Charlotte on the Monroe road at 1 o’clock last Saturday morning, near where the officers found eight gallons of corn liquor, was up Wednesday morning on a charge of selling liquor. The case was heard by Magistrate F.B. Alexander, who dismissed the case, the defendant having proved what was to the magistrate a satisfactory alibi.
The complaining witness against Crook in the trial before ‘Squire Alexander was J.W. Broom, who claimed that Crook sold a pint of corn liquor to his son, a minor. A young man named Williams said he s aw Crook selling young Broom the liquor and the Broom boy himself declared Crook sold it to him.
The defendant said he was not in Charlotte night before last at the hour when the alleged sale of liquor took place. The state’s witnesses said it was about 9:30 o’clock. Crook’s witnesses said that early that evening Crook and others went to a chicken stew near Newells and didn’t get back to Charlotte until after 11 o’clock.
Squire Alexander held the one pint of liquor when the case was dismissed. Attorney J.L. DeLaney, who had been retained by Mr. Broom to prosecute the case, started to reach for the liquor to hand it to his client. The magistrate told him to let it alone and that the liquor would remain in possession of the court to be poured into the sewer. Mr. DeLaney was going to insist that his client Broom had a right to he liquor and the magistrate called for Constable Emery, with the intention he said afterward of having the attorney arrested and charged with contempt of court had he taken the liquor.
Plummer Steward was attorney for the defendant.
The defendant in the case admitted he had been up before on a charge of selling liquor. One of the cases was in superior court, criminal session, about a year ago, but was acquitted.
He went to the sheriff’s office Monday morning and claimed the Chandler car that the officers found Saturday morning on the Monroe road. He said it had been stolen from him Friday night.
The defendant was connected with an escapade several months ago with a drunk woman, as a result of which his license as a jitney driver was taken away by the city.
From The Charlotte News, June 29, 1921
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